• IBM i Developers Sound Off On JavaScript Frameworks

  November 18, 2013 Alex Woodie

  If you’re an IBM i developer, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the amazing stuff that people are doing on the Web with JavaScript. However, as an IBM i professional, JavaScript may seem like a foreign language to you. Luckily, you’re not the first IBM i developer to venture down the JavaScript path. In fact, many IBM i developers have used JavaScript long enough to develop strong opinions about them, especially as it relates to Ext JS versus jQuery. As you might expect, there are dozens of JavaScript libraries out there to choose from. Evaluating all of them is best left to

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• Power8 Offers Big Blue And IBM i A Clean Slate

  November 18, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sometime around the middle of next year, IBM will start shipping the initial Power Systems machines based on the Power8 processors. Now is the time to start thinking about the business that Big Blue wants to have with the IBM i platform. And it is also the time for IBM i shops to start thinking about what kind of platform they want from IBM and how they want it to fit into their business and budgets. This is a perfect time to shake things up. As you will recall, earlier in the summer I went through the details on the

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• Power Systems Provisioning For Enterprise-Level Academics

  November 14, 2013 Dan Burger

  The IBM Power Systems Academic Initiative dishes out some serious enterprise-level computing to colleges around the world. Handling most of the load is a Power 770 box with a whole lot of partitioning and virtualization going on. Dialing up multi-tiered architectures with three operating systems (IBM i, AIX, and Linux) plus a variety of software combinations, and delivering functioning systems to hundreds of colleges with thousands of students is not a trivial achievement. Kevin Langston is the principal architect in the Phoenix, Arizona, facility known as the Power Systems Hub. The Power 770 that handles the bulk of the workloads

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• JD Edwards Security Found In the ‘Q’

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Q Software yesterday announced Security Manager Pro, a new utility that automates the process of rolling out and managing role-based security and segregation of duties (SoD) in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environments. The UK-based company’s new offering is designed to work closely with the security controls built into EnterpriseOne version 9. Specifically, Security Manager Pro takes over the management and implementation of task views, roles, and access control in the ERP environments. Many EnterpriseOne administrators try to use spreadsheets to manage these aspects of EnterpriseOne security, Q Software says, but soon run into difficulties with this approach. With Security Manager Pro,

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• Manufacturing ERP Costs Remain High, Panorama Says

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Manufacturers spend about $1.6 million more on their ERP installations than companies in other industries spend, largely due to high levels of complexity and customizations, according to a recent report by Panorama Consulting. According to Panorama’s 2014 Manufacturing ERP Report, manufacturers spend an average of $11.4 million to implement their ERP systems, compared to $9.8 million for the average ERP implementation across all industries. Most ERP installations go over budget in every industry, but manufacturers spend about $3 million more than planned, or $1.3 million more than the average for all industries, the report found. Manufacturers also tend to

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• Zend Hits the Throttle with PHP Dev Tool

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Certain development-related processes will run up to twice as fast in the latest release of Zend Technologies‘ development tool for PHP. Zend Studio version 10.5 also brings enhancements in the area of documentation, testing, and validation. Developers don’t have to use Zend Studio to write PHP-based Web and mobile applications that run on IBM i, Windows, or Linux platforms. But considering the integration that exists between Studio and Zend’s various runtimes, including Zend Server 6 for IBM i, developers who use them together can expect things like debugging, application monitoring, and performance tuning to go a little smoother. That’s

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• CGC Announces More Customer Wins for Construction ERP

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Computer Guidance Corp. has been on a winning streak lately with eCMS, its IBM i-based construction management system that consistently ranks as the nation’s number one costing/accounting/payroll system for large contractors ($250 million and up). The account wins have been adding up since October for the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company. The company started the month by announcing an expansion of its partnership with Parsons Electric, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based electric contractor that’s been a CGC customer since 1999. With the upgrade to eCMS version 4, the company will standardize on a single enterprise package that delivers everything from document imaging and workflow

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• MyEclipse Secure Gets the Web Goodness

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that are looking for an alternative to IBM‘s RAD development tool for Java programming may want to check out Genuitec, the Eclipse member that supports IBM i with its MyEclipse Blue line of products. This month the company upgraded its MyEclipse Secure line of development tools with goodies like support for HTML5, jQuery, PhoneGap, and Maven technologies. Based in Flower Mound, Texas, Genuitec develops programming tools based on the Eclipse standard that offer low-cost alternatives to IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) line of products. MyEclipse Blue is targeted at enabling users to write Java and

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• Deconstructing IBM i Cloud Migration Myths

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  If you’re an IBM i professional, there’s a good chance you’ve considered what a private cloud means to your organization. After all, if you could save $250,000 per year in support costs without giving up anything that’s critical to your organization, it would behoove you to explore the options and do the math. Unfortunately, separating the myths from the reality of cloud hosting isn’t always easy, as one IBM i private cloud provider, Abacus, recently showed. In a recent blog post titled “6 Myths about Migrating the IBM i to the Cloud,”, Patrick Schutz, director of managed services

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• HCS Moves IBM i Health Care App to Connectria’s Cloud

  November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Since 1969, Health Care Software (HCS) has been developing a suite of enterprise healthcare management applications that run on IBM‘s midrange platform, starting out with the System/3. Last year, HCS launched a software as a service (SaaS) version of its flagship offering. Instead of running the new business from its office building, the New Jersey company looked west to Connectria and its established private cloud environment for IBM i. In mid-2012, HCS launched LTCH CARE Data Set solution, a SaaS offering designed to meet the needs of long-term healthcare providers, such as nursing homes and rehabilitation clinics. A key

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